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Folios 306-307: George Mundy, HMS Ajax. Request for payment to his Agents Messrs...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2180/118
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This record is about the Folios 306-307: George Mundy, HMS Ajax. Request for payment to his Agents Messrs... dating from 1815 May 20 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1815 May 20
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Folios 306-307: George Mundy, HMS Ajax. Request for payment to his Agents Messrs Cooke, Halford and Son, Norfolk Street, London, of expenses for the passage of the Sicillian Prince and Duke as ordered by Lord Exmouth, Admiral of the Blue. Provides a list giving further details.
Folio 308: enclosure with folios 306-307. Memo dated 9 May 1815 from Lord Exmouth to Captain George Mundy, HMS Ajax. Orders to receive on board people for passage to Palermo.
Folio 304: enclosure with folios 306-307. Letter dated 10 May 1815 from Rear Admiral Charles Vinicombe Penrose, HMS Queen, Palermo Bay. States that as the suite and guards of His Sicillian Majesty are too many to accommodate on HMS Queen, Prince Pignatelli and also approximately 150 gaurds are to be received on board HMS Ajax for passage to Milazza. The 50 disposable seamen on board HMS Ajax are to be discharged on to HMS Queen.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap M540
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